On world's greatest con is the best. On Steve Jobs: Part of me wonders if a hardcore belief that anything is possible doesn't lead to those tragic situations like Steve Jobs when he didn't want to accept the conventional diagnosis, but instead wants to try fringy liver treatments and it didn't work out for him. "If any of this is of interest, this is what we are meditating on," says Judd Apatow.
In this episode, we sit down with famed stage magician and infamous instructor of the school of scams, Brian Brushwood, whose new podcast explores the world's greatest con artists and con jobs from World War II to modern game shows.
We cover everything in this episode from why you can't con an honest person to the power of shame and fame to folk psychology to how the British conned Hitler using one of the oldest tricks in the book to how one man broke the code for Press Your Luck earning him the most money ever awarded in a single day on any program in the history of game shows.